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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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dashboard graveyard

/ˈdæʃ.bɔːrd ˈɡreɪv.jɑːrd/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Where dashboards go when no one will decide to delete them and no one will open them.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The accumulation of unused dashboards that remain published, indexed, and occasionally cited.

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See also
  • dashboardA wall of charts no one is assigned to act on.
  • dashboard adoptionMeasured by logins, because measuring whether it changed a decision was harder.
  • report sprawlForty dashboards answering one question, each slightly, confidently wrong.